DASER: Digital Archives for Science
& Engineering Resources

2-4 December 2005
Friday through Sunday
College Park, MD

Science and technology libraries are undergoing intense change. Patrons are demanding more e-content with better tools. Print collections must still be maintained. Digital archiving and preservation is still in its infancy. The serials pricing crises is exacerbated by the need to purchase many materials in dual formats. And now we have institutional repositories and open access to manage. It is within this chaotic environment that the DASER (pronounced like "laser" but with a "d") Summits operate--a venue where the movers and shakers in our profession get together to assess and evaluate, collaborate and communicate.

Building on the success of the first DASER Summit, DASER-2 will examine new issues and challenges related to digital archives and Science-Technology-Medicine (STM) publishing. This conference will explore issues surrounding digital libraries, institutional repositories and open access publishing. such as:

Impact of OA on the future of STM libraries;

Institutional repository models: what works and what doesn't;

Publisher-library collaboration strategies, now and in the near future;

If you attend, you will hear about projects from academia, non-profit
organizations, the commercial sector, and government initiatives, both in
the United States and abroad. In addition to our key note speaker, other confirmed speakers include:

Karla Hahn, Association of Research Libraries

Stevan Harnad, Universite of Quebec/Montreal

Timothy C. Hays, National Institutes of Health

Leslie Johnston, University of Virginia

Robert Kelly, American Physical Society

Michael Leach, Harvard University

Marie Martens Open Repository & BioMed Central

Steve Moss Institute of Physics

David Osterbur, Harvard University

Jeff Riedel ProQuest Company

Vivian Siegel, Independent Scholar

Mary Steiner University of Pennsylvania

David Stern, Yale University

Peiling Wang, University of Tennessee

This Summit will be of special interest to the following groups:

science & engineering librarians

STM publishers

systems librarians

database & digital library professionals

managers of STM collections

This Summit is sponsored by the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), Scientific and Technical Information Systems Special Interest Group (SIG STI), and the Potomac Valley Chapter (PVC), in cooperation with the Special Libraries Association, Sci-Tech Division.

Have questions? What to talk to a person about this conference? Then contact Michael Leach at mrleach@fas.harvard.edu or 1-617-495-2878. He will be happy to address your concerns.